Matt

Why do Conservatives hate this so much? Anyone?

🇺🇸/IRAN: Americans beating their chests over sinking a single Iranian warship returning from joint drills with India are missing the point. Iran has warships. They are useful for specific tasks, valuable, and losing them costs Iran. But Iran's strategy for defending itself against a US war of aggression did not include these ships. It depends on 1000s of small boats with anti-ship missiles and other capabilities to create a naval version of its "mosaic" defense strategy. Instead of consolidating Iran's naval capabilities into a handful of large expensive ships easy to track and sink, it has distributed these capabilities across many more, harder to find and target, easier to replace boats. It remains to be seen how effective Iran's strategy is - but sinking Iranian warships at dock or in non-combat transit is symbolic, not symptomatic.

Every country in Asia is running the same clock right now. They just have very different numbers. Japan: 254 days. The most prepared nation on earth. Built those reserves after being embargoed in 1973, a humiliation so severe they spent the next 50 years ensuring it could never happen again. Refiners are asking to open them. The government said not yet. China: approximately 10 days before domestic operations face real constraints. Already halted diesel exports to protect what it has. India: Gas cuts to industry of 10 to 30% already implemented. Not projected. Implemented. Today. South Korea: 1.6 million barrels per day through Hormuz. That pipeline is now air. Japan has three weeks of LNG inventories. Pakistan: no strategic reserve. Bangladesh: no strategic reserve. No buffer. No option. No plan B. This is the thing the aggregate numbers obscure. When analysts say Asia faces disruption, they are averaging 254 days of Japanese preparedness with zero days of Pakistani preparedness and calling it a regional crisis of moderate concern. That is not one crisis. That is twelve different crises at twelve different velocities hitting simultaneously. The countries with reserves will deploy them in sequence, each release sending a price signal that accelerates the clock for the countries beneath them on the buffer ladder. Japan releases. Prices drop temporarily. Then the release ends. Prices resume. South Korea releases. Same pattern. Then India. Then nobody is left with a buffer and the war is still running. That is the cascade mechanism. And it has a name in energy economics. It is called strategic reserve depletion under sustained supply shock. The last time it happened at this scale was 1973. That ended with the global recession of 1974 and a complete restructuring of Western energy policy. Japan built 254 days of reserves because of what happened in 1973. On day seven of this war, they are already being asked to open them. The number that should terrify every energy desk in the world is not 254. It is seven. open.substack.com/pub/shanak…

Moammar Gadhafi: "Taliban does not pose any threat" "Taliban equals Vatican... or similar to Vatican" "Where is al qaeda? Al qaeda is here in New York" (laughs) "Was he (Bin Laden) on one of those aircraft?" "The terrorists that hit New York are not from Afghan, they are not Afgahni" "The terrorists did not use a plane that left from Iraq or Afghanistan. ... they left from JFK here in NY. The whole action was done here" "They were trained here. They were not trained in Iraq or Afghanistan" Is this the reason he was killed?

This is what our Mk-48 torpedoes do. The Mk-48 torpedo sinks ships primarily by detonating a 650-pound high-explosive warhead directly underneath the keel rather than hitting the side. This creates a massive gas bubble that lifts the ship, breaks its back, and causes catastrophic structural failure. The resulting damage floods the vessel, causing it to sink rapidly.

Spain denied the United States of using their base to strike Iran 🇮🇷 The United States came out and said, they have reached an agreement with Spain and they can now use Spain base to strike Iran 🇮🇷 Spain came out again and said WE DID NOT AGREE TO COOPERATE WITH THE U.S TO USE OUR BASE 😭😭😭

Dear MAGA, In case you missed it in Geography class, THIS IS AMERICA. Thank you for educating yourself.

Last year I eliminated our PTO policy. I called it "unlimited." The board loved it. HR loved it. Finance really loved it. Let me explain why Finance loved it. Under the old policy, employees accrued 18 days per year. Unused days carried over. When employees quit, we owed them money. Cash. For days they earned but didn't take. That's a liability. On the books. $4.7 million in accrued PTO across 2,300 employees. I made it disappear. With one policy change. "Unlimited PTO." You can't accrue what's infinite. You can't owe what was never counted. The liability vanished. $4.7 million. Gone. The CFO sent me a bottle of wine. I told employees it was about "trust and flexibility." It was about the balance sheet. But "balance sheet optimization" doesn't fit on a careers page. "Unlimited PTO" does. We updated the job postings. Applications increased 23%. People love unlimited. Until they try to use it. Under the old policy, employees took an average of 17 days per year. Under unlimited, they take 11. That's not a bug. That's the design. When PTO is a number, people take the number. It's theirs. They earned it. Managers can't argue with a number. When PTO is "unlimited," people take nothing. Because unlimited comes with questions. "Is this a good time?" "Who's covering?" "What will people think?" The guilt does the enforcement. I don't have to say no. The culture says no. I just built the culture. We track time-off requests in Workday. I see everything. A senior engineer requested two weeks in July. His manager approved it. Officially. Then sent a Slack message. "Totally fine. Just wanted to flag that the Erikson deliverable overlaps. Probably fine. Just flagging." The engineer took four days. Unlimited means whatever your anxiety allows. For most people, that's less than before. Some employees don't take any PTO. We call them "high performers." They get promoted. Then they manage others. They don't approve much PTO either. The system self-replicates. A recruiter asked how we "stay competitive." I said, "Unlimited PTO." She asked how much people actually take. I said, "That's not tracked." It is tracked. I have a dashboard. I don't share the dashboard. We did an employee survey. 84% said they "appreciated the flexibility of unlimited PTO." 12% said they "wished they felt more comfortable taking time off." We published the 84%. The 12% went in a folder. The folder is called "Noted." I don't open that folder. Someone in engineering asked if we could go back to accrued PTO. I said, "That would limit your flexibility." He said he wanted limits. I said, "That's not aligned with our culture of trust." He stopped asking. Trust is a funny word. I trust employees to feel too guilty to use their benefits. They trust me to frame that guilt as freedom. That's the deal. I'm presenting at an HR conference next month. The session is called "Unlimited PTO: Building a Culture of Ownership." Ownership means employees own their guilt. I own the savings. The policy costs us nothing. Because employees take nothing. And call it a benefit. I'll be VP of People by Q2. Unlimited upside.

NOT a violation of the law: - Telling ICE agents to go fuck themselves - Flipping off ICE agents - Yelling at ICE agents - Filming ICE agents - Refusal to cooperate with ICE agents' demands - Disobeying commands without fighting back This is all according to...@DHSgov

Somebody riddle me this on deportations, Joe Biden: 1.4 Million deported Obama: 3 million deported Bush: 2 million deported Clinton: 1 million deported WHEN THE F* DID ICE BECOME A THING? When Trump got in office? Why all of a sudden ICE is the topic everyday, the media is doing this purposely to ignite tensions.

As governor, I’m proud to work with the Legislature to raise the minimum wage to $20 for fast-food workers and $25 for health care workers. Meanwhile, workers in red states still earn just $7.25 an hour. Try paying rent, raising a family, or affording an education on that.

“For Venezuela, we are prepared to give even our own blood!” In a massive rally in Havana, just steps from the U.S. Embassy, Cuban President Miguel Díaz-Canel today harshly condemned Trump’s bombing of Caracas as an act of terrorism and violation of international law. He also accused Washington of “kidnapping” President Nicolas Maduro, urging his supporters to “take a stand against fascism”.

He isn't such a crazy guy for developing nukes now, is he?

The normalization and acceptance of Islamophobia in our politics is disgusting. Our Muslim neighbors are not Republicans’ scapegoats for antisemitic attacks and Trump’s failed policies. We must absolutely condemn Islamophobia loudly and hold those perpetuating it accountable.

Yt people don't want Black kids to have access to it.

Indians created Civilization

You called this devotion. So why pretend the other is oppression?

If anyone here can show me graveyard of anybody mentioned in the Bible, I’ll give my life to Jesus.

It’s always interesting to me how ppl will have an issue with other cultures eating their food with their hands but pizza, burgers, hot dogs, wings, ribs, etc are all acceptable lol but not this - this is dirty???